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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Moore, Thomas ___ 1779-1852 ___ Irish ___ writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Moore was born in Dublin, and he studied there, at Trinity College, and at Middle Temple in London. Eschewing the law, he found an entree into English society through his talent as a poet. His 'Irish Melodies' - poems set to music - sold widely and were much performed. He also wrote satirical works such as 'The Fudge Family in Paris'. In 1803, he was appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda, but relinquished the post to a deputy. From there, he travelled in Canada and the US. On returning to England he married Bessy Dyke, an actress. Having lived beyond his means for some years, and having been encumbered with debts incurred by his deputy in Bermuda, he fled Britain in 1819 to avoid imprisonment. He remained in France and Italy until 1822, when his debts were finally paid. He was a good friend of Byron, who entrusted his memoirs to him. Moore, however, along with the publisher John Murray, burned these memoirs - thus creating one of the most infamous episodes in literary history. Nevertheless, Moore went on to edit and publish Byron's letters and journals. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1814-1847 ___ literary society people family WEB TEXT LINKS one quote another ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Reading University Library National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections ___ 1825 SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore The Journal of Thomas Moore 1814-1841 Tom Moore's Diary, a selection 1925 December 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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